Tensions Bubble Over Attack on Chinese Students

6/17/2013 5:31AM

Six Chinese students were attacked in the French wine-making region of Bordeaux at a time when the budding wine trade between China and France is becoming increasingly fraught with tension. The WSJ's Jason Chow has the story.

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... the the ... six we stand ... and France's wine making region of board to aisle and ever con joining me now is reporter Jason Chow ... I Jason at a sale I mean students a victim of a hate crime what we know about this case it's been described as such ... to what we do know is that's ... on Friday nights ... it's the ... that is described as very drunk French youths were ... about ... to browsing and make a lot of noise in the can of soup ... I did that summer these Chinese Jews who is living in the small village of hustings which is near Bordeaux ... they ... were complaining to these issues to quiet down and the French guys came in ... to force their way into the residents of the time the students to pick ... a fight ensued ... um and even one female student starts ... hits with a bottle in the face was possible ... ok and so what I mean when you hear a lot of that hate crimes in this of this comes at a time when ... France antimatter having to face a lot of trade especially in the wind industry said what is the chance that this can become a diplomatic incident was coming in concert to become one already ... on Saturday ... the one the French interior minister described it as a xenophobic attack and condemn it ... on Sunday um the friend said the Chinese embassies issued statements condemning the attack and also asking for ... swift justice peace and dispatched to the representatives them to Bordeaux ... um on Sunday ... also is with the opening of Vin expo which is the world's largest wine fair ... now China has become a large importer of French points ... and ... this is this um ... this ... has to do next though it there was an opening press conference ... that the shadow culture minister also scolded today ... the the xenophobic attacks so neither was a very strong ALK and aside from the comments coming from the officials and aimed at China has a very vocal ... on lineup is writing hadn't populations and what are they saying on lying to them about this this attack was of course there have ... been very angry about it as well ... but some one small little footnotes of what happened here was a was somebody from from ... the head of the school of which the studies point students were aunt's ... aam mansion that's one of the victims of the of the attack ... was the daughter of the various ... the former ... mayor of a very large city he said he told the local newspapers in France ... the that ... went back to ... China and then the ... love of the people online in China reacted by saying ... posies ... the students are are wealthy privileged and maybe that's you know the kind of getting their comeuppance and there's that there's a bit of a negative reaction as well ... in China right but not as good ... case for I mean obviously this is this a serious situation given in some of the words for her that's right ... thanks Fran much different from mine Jason save intended Avista dot com under for time